“Classics”

Young Adult Bibliography

“Classics”

ED 5502 Reading and Literature, Grades 5-12

Updated July 2014

prepared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD

“Classics” is in quotes because it is a controversial term. For too long, the “canon” was dominated by DWEMS—dead, white European males. I see them as books that have enduring value for generations of students of all ethnicities. Arbitrarily I am defining them as books published before 1970.

Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart; The Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease